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Check our Tip of the Week, about the “Tags” feature in Azure SQL Database. Tip of the Week #10 One of the available Azure SQL Database Server settings are “Tags”. Tags are name/value pairs that enable you to categorize resources and view consolidated billing by applying the same tag to multiple resources and resource groups. … Read more…
Check our Tip of the Week, about the SQL Server offerings in Azure. Tip of the Week #7 The Available 3 SQL Server offerings in Azure are: SQL Server on Virtual Machines (*IaaS) Azure SQL Database (Logical Server – *PaaS) Azure SQL Database Managed Instance (*PaaS) *IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service *PaaS: Platform … Read more…
Check our Tip of the Week, about the main technical characteristics of CosmosDB. Tip of the Week #5 The main technical characteristics of Azure Cosmos DB are: Ability to globally distribute your data Multiple data models and APIs for working with your data You can elastically and independently scale throughput and storage on demand … Read more…
Check our Tip of the Week, about JSON support in SQL Server. Tip of the Week #4 Stretch Database in SQL Server 2016 and later, allows storing historical data in the Microsoft Azure cloud. It runs in the background and provides seamless access to both local and remote data. Among other, it can be … Read more…
This quick tip, talks about creating Azure SQL Database logins and users after you have performed an initial setup of your Azure SQL Database server and defined the admin user. So, if for example, you would like to create a new SQL login/user with db_owner permissions on a database, you can do this by connecting … Read more…
Hi friends, today, I’m proudly announcing the release of my new online course, titled “Introduction to Azure SQL Database for Beginners“. Below, you can learn more about the course, in terms of how it can help you, to easily get started with Azure SQL Database, both Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a … Read more…
In this article, we will be discussing about Azure Resource Cost Estimation and Management. Introduction to Azure Cost Estimation and Analysis Microsoft Azure has a ton of features and resources to use, which enable you to do just about anything from the computational aspect. However, since you pay for the usage of all these … Read more…
Enabling auditing in Azure SQL Database is a very good idea, since it allows you get alerts on a variety of actions and behaviors. Since data is the most valuable asset in any organization, it is always a good idea, if not a necessity, not only having your database servers and instances secured, but also … Read more…
Azure Data Lake Analytics, is a powerful on-demand analytics job service on Microsoft Azure. By reading this article, you can learn Azure Data Analytics by Example. The Example Since this is an introductory article on Azure Data Lake Analytics, the example that will be presented, will be a simple one just to showcase the technology. … Read more…
We continue our article series dedicated Microsoft Azure. In previous articles, we’ve talked about Azure SQL Database, SQL Server on Azure VMs, Azure Advisor, etc. In this article, we will talk about what Azure Cosmos DB is, as well as see a simple step by step example on how to enable it and access it … Read more…
In previous articles, we’ve talked about how you can create your first database in Azure SQL Database, how you can create an Azure SQL Server virtual machine, as well as how to backup a SQL Server database from on-premises to Azure Storage. In this article, we will discuss about what is Azure Advisor and what … Read more…
In Microsoft Azure, there are two main options for SQL Server services. The first option is Azure SQL Database (PaaS). The second option in SQL Server on Azure (laaS). In a previous article, I explained how you can create a SQL Server instance and database on Azure SQL Database. In this article, we are going … Read more…
In a previous article, we discussed how you can create your first database on Azure SQL Database. In this article, we are going to see, how to backup a SQL Server database from on-premises to Azure blob storage. Moreover, we will see how we can restore a database on-premises, based on a backup file store … Read more…
Microsoft Azure SQL Database is a fully managed cloud database service, provided as part of Microsoft Azure. That means, that via the Microsoft Azure Portal, among other, you can easily create database servers, and thus host your databases. Moreover, you can still continue to use the same SQL tools you used for on-premises SQL Server … Read more…
In this article, we will discussing about built-in JSON support in SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. What is JSON? JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation and it is widely used for data representation in the data services world. With built-In JSON support in SQL Server and Azure SQL Database, you can format query … Read more…